Runescape Rare Items - Are They Keeping
Runescape Popular?
I was recently thinking about all the things that might
keep a game like Runescape successful. Now Runescape has a
lot of things going for it that keep it addictive. Firstly
the fact that they off free Runescape accounts is a
wonderful feature that no doubt keeps loads of people happy
and entertained without being required to pay for the game.
Then there is the whole friends factor, with Runescape being
quite an interactive game where you can make lots of new
friends with whom you can enjoy yourself with and pass the
time with. Then obviously there is the whole thing of
setting goals and wanting to improve skills and just make
those couple or levels so that you can do an assortment of
new things in the game. Then I got to thinking about goals,
and I couldn’t help but feel that for so many Runescape
players one of their all time long term goals must be to
obtain themselves a wearable Runescape rare item. I mean
this is probably one of the ultimate challenges in Runescape
these days considering the prices it costs for such rare
items.
The challenge of obtaining a Runescape
Rare Item
Working on skills and raising levels in Runescape is one
thing, but the goal doesn’t change, you just need to mine X
amount of coal or iron to get X level or fish X amount of
lobsters to get X fishing level, but one target that is
forever changing is the goal of earning enough Runescape
gold to buy a Runescape rare item. Currently, as at
September 2006, santa hats, the cheapest of the wearable
Runescape rare items are selling for 25 million gp which is
far in excess of most Runescape players’ budgets. So to be
able to work for and save up enough money to purchase one of
these items is surely one of the greatest Runescape
achievements. This achievement doesn’t even take into
consideration the fact that the inflation in the Runescape
rare item market is insane, we are talking 100%+ every year.
So unless you can make millions of Runescape gold virtually
overnight you will no doubt be paying more that you original
expect to pay for such items. This increasing price makes
this one of those challenges where the level of achievement
is forever ever moving upwards making you work harder,
smarter and longer to reach your goals.
For me Runescape was always about reaching little goals,
and I can’t help but feel that this is the way that so many
other Runescape players play this game. So if reaching goals
is what one of the major attractions of Runescape I can’t
help but feel that the big daddy of the Runescape goals has
to be obtaining a Runescape rare item, and if obtaining this
Runescape rare item soon becomes impossible then maybe
Runescape’s popularity may start to diminish as well.
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